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thagmann_128177
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May 27, 2005

Set a Timer on an Active Connection

F5,     I have a customer who would like to use iRules to create a timer on all existing active connections to a pool and time each of them out after x amount of time even if they are still...
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drteeth_127330
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May 27, 2005
I'm afraid this is a tough one. You can get the age of a connection in milliseconds with the following command: 

IP::stats age

So I suppose you could check the age on each CLIENT_DATA event, but this approach is terribly ugly and will only work for TCP or UDP full-proxied connections (not FastL4 or FastHTTP).

Honestly, this feature is probably beyond the realm of iRules. I recommend that the customer contact support. They can request an enhancement or maybe even file a CSR.